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Hezlep Family Foundation at a glance

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Hezlep Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$138k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$787kHousing & Shelter$634kPublic Safety & Disaster$58kHealth$39kEducation$20kRecreation & Sports$13kArts & Culture$7kReligion$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $13k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PEOPLE CONCERN$125,000
VISION TO LEARN$2,500
UNION RESCUE MISSION$2,500
CITY HARVEST$2,500
LOS ANGELES BULLS SOCCER CLUB$2,500
PROJECT HEAL$1,500
Crossroads School$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $634k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $125k → 14%jovenes inc: $60k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $100k → 14%jovenes inc: $58k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $80k → 14%jovenes inc: $50k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $70k → 14%jovenes inc: $26k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $60k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$690k · 10 repeat orgs$882k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

$690k
$879k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

100%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TP
    THE PEOPLE CONCERN
    5× · 2021–2025 · $435k · revenue +60%
  • JI
    JOVENES INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $194k · revenue +551%
  • CS
    CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • HF
    HEZLEP FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $784k
  • CC
    CALIFORNIA COMMNTY FDTN WILDFIRE RE
    one grant, 2018 · $58k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $26k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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4
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
5
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
6
West Valley Community Services of Santa Clara County Inc

Our mission is to unite the community to fight hunger and homelessness. our vision is a community where every person has food on the table and every person has a roof over their head.

Housing & Shelter
7
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
8
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
9
Hunger Action Los Angeles Inc

Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through advocacy, education, and appropriate direct service. the chief program area currently is the market match prgram operated by hala at 22 farmers markets in la county…

Education
10
Housing Works

Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.

Housing & Shelter
11
Rescue Mission Alliance

The rescue mission alliance's primary purpose is to establish and operate rescue missions to reach the less fortunate with the gospel of jesus christ and to assist in the feeding, clothing, and lodging of those who are destitute or…

Human Services
12
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of New York City; the most unlike its peers is William Loveland Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEZLEP FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST: $783,735 · OtherHEZLEP FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUSTCALIFORNIA COMMNTY FDTN WILDFIRE RE: $58,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA COMMNTY FDTN WILDFIRE RE+8 more: $36,500 · OtherTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $435,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERNJOVENES INC: $194,000 · Human ServicesJOVENES INC+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $13,500 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $6,500 · EducationVISION TO LEARN: $6,500 · HealthPROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE: $3,500 · HealthWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $1,500 · HealthEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,000 · HealthMarina Counseling Center: $1,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES BULLS SOCCER CLUB: $13,000 · Recreation & SportsSAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC: $7,135 · Arts & CultureRBC MINISTRIES: $5,500 · Religion
Other$878,235Human Services$634,000Education$20,000Health$13,500Recreation & Sports$13,000Arts & Culture$7,135Religion$5,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $435,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOVENES INC: $194,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES BULLS SOCCER CLUB: $13,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC: $7,135 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM LOVELAND FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hezlep Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hezlep Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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